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While the promise of inhaled insulin as an alternative to injections was reported recently, what you're about to learn may render that approach obsolete even before it's released to the public.
Dr. Emmanuel Opara and a team of scientists at Duke University recently announced a novel treatment that could potentially eliminate the need for insulin in type I or Type II Diabetics. Nine months ago his team injected a baboon named Babs-92 with specially encapsulated islet (insulin producing) cells from a pig's pancreas.
Their initial results are both fascinating and exciting!
In addition to not requiring insulin, Babs-92 has remarkably shown no signs of rejection. This is due to a unique process which coats the cells with a complex carbohydrate known as alginate. The coating serves as a protective sphere which acts like a one-way door. It specifically allows insulin to escape while blocking the entrance of antibodies and immune cells that normally attack transplanted tissue. As a direct result, the dreaded process of tissue rejection is blocked.
Since you might be questioning the use of insulin derived from pigs, it should be noted that pork insulin from swine has been used for many years to treat human diabetics. The difference between human and pork insulin amounts to only a single amino acid.
While I do not typically report or comment about such early research, I decided to make an exception in this case based upon the fact that this particular experiment holds such great promise for more than 135 million people worldwide. Additionally, I'm convinced this concept is not only brilliant, but is also practical on a worldwide scale.
Potential benefits could include:
Yet even if this research leads to a effective widespread transplant approach, it is important to realize that the majority of the 14 million Type II Diabetics in our nation aren't off the hook. These individuals who tend to develop the disease later in life typically have sufficient or even elevated levels of insulin. Their insulin receptors do not function adequately to meet their needs. Therefore the transplant will not work for themæ at least not initially. Some, who eventually need insulin, could ultimately benefit.
This potential breakthrough arrives on the heels of some rather discouraging news. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Diabetes increased 33% in the US from 1990 to 1998. When we consider the fact that the incidence of Diabetes rose a shocking 70% among individuals aged 30-39, we must begin to take our health more seriously. It is our responsibility to change our lifestyle.
Proper nutrition, weight management, exercise and stress reduction must not be discounted. Do not ignore your own well-being with hopes of a breakthrough down the road. Know you can make a difference today. It's a fact that medical scientists are far better at preventing disease than treating it.
Yet for Type I Diabetics and Type IIs who presently require insulin, Opara's research may be a life saver. His team is now studying two additional baboons who have recently received transplants. Only time will tell whether or not their technique is successful.
On a note of optimism, if all proceeds well, human trials could begin in just 18 months. Opara commented, "I pray every day that this technology becomes clinically viable, because I think it is going to be a tremendous change in the lifestyle of patients who have diabetes."
For now at least there's a glimmer of hope on the horizon for children who struggle with Diabetes each day. If ongoing animal and future human studies are successful, Diabetic children and their parents will not have to face a future of potentially devastating complications associated with a dreaded disease. Perhaps soon there will be a story about a pig and a baboonæ a "happy ever after" tale that really comes true - Mind Over Matter!
Sources: Centers for Disease Control (CDC), National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), National Health Examination Survey (NHES) and National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES)
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Wyndham Worldwide to Report Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2013 Earnings on February 7, 2014; Conference Call and Webcast at 8:30am EST
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PARSIPPANY, N.J., Jan. 9, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Wyndham Worldwide Corporation (NYSE:WYN) announced today that it will report fourth quarter and full year 2013 results on Friday, February 7, 2014. Steve Holmes, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, and Tom Conforti, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, will host a conference call with investors to discuss the results and business outlook at 8:30am EST that morning.
Listeners can access the webcast live through the company's website at www.wyndhamworldwide.com/investors/. The conference call may also be accessed by dialing 800-369-2125 and providing the pass code "WYNDHAM." Listeners are urged to call at least 10 minutes prior to the scheduled start time. An archive of this webcast will be available on the website for approximately 90 days beginning at 12:00pm EST on February 7, 2014. A telephone replay will be available for approximately 90 days beginning at 12:00pm EST on February 7, 2014 at 866-415-2340.
About Wyndham Worldwide Corporation:
One of the world's largest hospitality companies, Wyndham Worldwide provides a wide range of hospitality products and services through its global portfolio of world-renowned brands. The world's largest hotel company based on the number of properties, Wyndham Hotel Group is home to many of the world's best-known hotel brands, with over 7,440 franchised hotels and over 638,300 hotel rooms worldwide. Wyndham Exchange & Rentals is the worldwide leader in vacation exchange and the world's largest professionally managed vacation rentals business, providing more than 5 million leisure-bound families annually with access to over 106,000 vacation properties in 100 countries through its prominent exchange and vacation rental brands. The industry and timeshare ownership market leader, Wyndham Vacation Ownership develops, markets, and sells vacation ownership interests and provides consumer financing to owners through its network of 190 vacation ownership resorts serving approximately 915,000 owners throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean, and the South Pacific. Based in Parsippany, NJ, Wyndham Worldwide employs approximately 32,500 associates globally. For more information, please visit www.wyndhamworldwide.com.
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Review: Sennheiser HD 800 headphones
In a class of their own
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These are headphones designed for serious listening. These are hefty headphones, and the heavy cord ends in a gold-plated quarter-inch plug — no minijack adapter included.
When I put on the HD 800's I was surprised at how they felt on my head. Yes, these headphones were substantial, but the padding on the headband and earcups wrapped me in comfort. I didn't feel like there was any excessive weight, and that impression lasted through my hours-long listening sessions.
General listening impressions
According to Sennheiser, the reason for the large earcups is to accommodate a circular transducer that delivers cleaner, more accurate sound while minimizing unwanted vibrations. No question we're in audiophile territory here. You can see the transducer (second from left) in the exploded diagram. The second illustration (right below) shows how it spreads out the sound. And, based on what I heard, it's a pretty accurate representation.
What I actually experienced was the most detailed and spacious sound I had ever heard from my music. I started by cycling through a wide variety of genres, and deliberately picked tracks of both good and bad recording quality. As expected, mono tracks from 1960's teenage garage bands had all the surface noise and distorted sound of the original, but the HD 800's seemed to bring it out in higher relief, allowing me to hear more of the music buried amongst the noise.
Professional recordings fared much better. I heard a wider soundstage than normal, but it was still a continuous sound from left to right (save for a few tracks that were deliberately mixed for separate and discreet channels). Listening is a subjective experience, but this is the only way I know how to describe what happened next. I listened to some current tracks from my Now 35 CD. I could hear the compression that most popular music is subjected to, but at the same time, I heard more deeply into the mix. The sound stage seemed like the equivalent of a letterbox image on a TV — full from side to side, but with black bars above and below. It was as if I could hear the space left by the missing high and low frequencies.
Going for the classical
With headphones this sensitive, I brought out my toughest test pieces, which are all classical compositions. Classical music recordings are seldom compressed at all — it's the extremes of the instruments' registers, and especially the blending of the overtones ringing in sympathy with the played notes that give the music its subtle shading.
My favorite test piece is the opening part of Henryk Gorecki's Third Symphony, "Symphony of Sorrowful Songs," the Nonesuch recording with David Zinman, Dawn Upshaw, and the London Sinfonietta. The work starts out with the contrabasses and cellos playing in their bottom-most registers as softly as possible. Very slowly, they get louder, slowly moving up the scale and splitting off into contrapuntal lines. After a while, the violas join in (in their lowest register), then eventually the violins. Each section split into two or more sections playing different lines.
With an average set of headphones, I usually don't hear anything until about two to five seconds into the work (really low-end earbuds can take as long as eight-ten seconds before the music's audible). That's about the time this low indistinguishable rumbling that gradually sorts itself out into music when the cellos get to mid-register. Because the opening sounds murky on just about everything I've tried it on, I usually follow along with a copy of the score so I can determine more accurately at what point the system sorts itself out with this challenging sound.
For the first time through headphones, I actually heard the start of the work. The HD 800's accurately delivered the extremely soft low tones of the opening bass line, and I could even hear when the section split into two parts. I heard the entrances of the cellos, and when they branched off into different melodies, and it was wonderful and moving. That's what high-end audio's all about.
My second test piece was the opening to Ralph Vaughan William's First Symphony, the "Sea Symphony." It's the recent Telarc release with Robert Spano conducting the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in an immaculate recording.
The symphony starts with a clarion fanfare, and then a 40-voice chorus enters proclaiming, "Be-hold, the SEA!" On that last word the full 80-piece orchestra weighs in at full volume. After that final crashing chord on "Sea." the chorus fades back and a softer section of the music begins, simulating rippling waves.
Most headphones can't handle the full volume thrown at them, and I usually hear either some clipping or over-modulation. Some low-end systems take a moment to recover from the audio onslaught and the beginning of the soft section sometimes sounds blurred as a result.
To hear this work through the Sennheiser HD 800's was nothing less than a thrilling experience. I heard the full orchestra and chorus in all their glory, spread across a wide sound field, every section placed just as I could imagine them on stage. The sudden drop in volume level was no problem at all. I heard the woodwinds rise out of sound of the chorus' fading chord, everything in warm, natural detail. I also heard something I had never heard in any other audition — the collective intake of breath by the choir in preparation for their opening chord. It's often heard in live performance, and can provide a cue as to what's about to happen. To hear that in the recording just added to the authenticity of the sound and drew me further into the work.
I did a final classical test. This time is was an older Virgin Classics recording of Claude Debussy's "Dances Sacrée et Profane" for harp and string orchestra with Vanessa McKeand and the English Chamber Orchestra. It's an intimately recorded work, and I wanted to hear how the HD 800's handled it.
They did it beautifully, of course. With all of the overtones present, the harp sounded full and natural, as did the supporting instruments. I could also detect a soft thuck when the harpist changed pedals, and even a gentle swish with the conductor turned the pages of the score. Far from being off-putting, I found that level of detail in the sound exciting, as it's precisely what I would have heard in a live performance. It gave the recording real presence.
Into the studio
As I've mentioned in a previous post, I have a home studio where I produce a couple of podcasts. Although the Sennheiser HD 800's aren't technically studio headphones, I couldn't resist trying them out. This may be a case where the headphones worked too well. When I plugged them into the board, they immediately gave me everything the mike was picking up. And I mean everything. There's a lot of soft, ambient sound that's present, but never gets picked up once I start recording. I heard sounds that I hadn't heard even with studio-grade headphones.
I did some test voice track recordings (which is what I normally use the setup for) with the headphones. Once I started talking into the mike, the low-level ambient sounds got covered up, but I was hearing my voice in much more (unflattering) detail than I was used to! Every aspirate, every partial breath, every tongue clack was there with a little more presence then I was used to (even though I use a wind screen and don't talk directly into the mike just to address those very issues).
In playback, those sounds weren't there (thanks to the way I mix it), but still, I did find myself using the sound from the headphones to adjust my voice, delivery, and even position to the microphone. Listening to the end result played against previously-recorded voice tracks didn't yield that much difference, even heard over the HD 800's, although the test session did sound slightly cleaner.
So while the Sennheiser HD 800's are great headphones for personal listening, I'm thinking they're maybe a little too sensitive for studio work.
Final thoughts
Without a doubt, having the Sennheiser HD 800's to try out was the greatest listening experience I have ever had through headphones. Friends are often curious to know what I'm reviewing, and the HD 800's got a lot of comments — most of which were, "those headphones cost HOW MUCH?!" If it was short conversation, I explained that to someone serious about music who had made a substantial investment in their system, these were very reasonably priced for the performance they deliver.
If we had a little more time, though, I let them try on the headphones and played some music for them. Most had only one thing to say afterwords. A very quiet, and awe-struck word: "Oh."


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Contact Leondra Burchall at 202.606.2324 or by email at lburchall[at]neh[dot]gov to request electronic copies of the insurance policies.
Federal/State Partnership provides each of the 56 state humanities councils three basic insurance policies as protection of the National Endowment for the Humanities' investment in the councils. The policies are renewed annually on April 1. The 2014-2015 policies are available now.
The 2014-2015 policies include endorsements covering employee dishonesty and terrorism. Federal/State Partnership does not provide directors and officers liability coverage, but strongly recommends that each council carry it. Each council should review these policies with its insurance broker to ensure that there is not duplication of coverage.
The broker is McManus Serra & Klein Insurance Brokers, Inc., 400 Greenwood Avenue, Wyncote, PA 19095, 215.481.0400 phone, 215 481-0410 fax. Please contact Frank Serra or Jacquie Swanson with any questions. The Federal/State Partnership contact for insurance is Leondra Burchall.
The policies provided by Federal/State Partnership are, in summary:
|General Liability with an occurrence limit of $1,000,000. General Liability protects a council against suits brought by people external to it (i.e., not staff or board of a council) for bodily injury or property damage (slip and fall injuries) suffered by them while on or off a council's premises.
|Property: Office Contents with a $250,000 limit. The office contents coverage includes everything inside the walls of its offices. The walls, floors, ceilings of the office are not covered, nor are any buildings.
Employee Dishonesty with a $10,000 limit. The current policy contains a deductible of $1,000.
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Non-Owned Auto Liability with an occurrence limit of $1,000,000. There is coverage for the Council when autos, vans, and trucks NOT owned, leased, or rented by a Council, are the cause of a lawsuit, by external parties, against the Council. This policy protects the Council and does NOT extend to any directors, officers, employees, or volunteers as individual drivers or to their vehicles.
|Hired Car Auto Liability with an occurrence limit of $1,000,000. The current policy also provides additional (excess) protection to a council for suits brought against it when it has failed to purchase sufficient liability coverage for its rented vehicle.
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Cupertino-Fremont-Sunnyvale Council of PTA (CFSCPTA) is the umbrella groupf or all 28 PTA and PTSA in the Cupertino Union School District, Sunnyvale School District, and Fremont Union High School District. CFSCPTA is a member of the sixth district PTA in Santa Clara County.
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2009-2010 school year has been a productive and rewarding year!
All 28 PTA units in the Council are active and making great contributions to their schools and communities. Thirteen of our units have received the State PTA Membership Challenge Awards for growing their membership by 5% or more. Congratulations to Columbia Middle PTA for winning the Council Membership Challenge by increasing their membership with the highest percentage. Congratulations to Montclaire Elementary PTA for having the highest membership to student ratio at the amazing 90%. Council now has close to 13,000 members!
In addition, our Council has the most Reflections entries advanced to the 6th District and the State levels. Local PTA's commitment to supplement arts education is evident and successful. 9 units have received Council Parent Education sponsorship for about $500 each, Council supports and promotes a better informed and educated parent community. More than 70 incoming PTA officers took advantages of the Council leadership training. This is just the beginning of an on-going training and support Council offers. I am very proud that Council officers are working with unit PTA leaders to provide leadership and organization in support of local schools.
This year, Council and the units played important roles in support of the school districts. We provided communication, financial and volunteer support for the successful Their Future Is Now fundraising campaign which raised $2 million to save CUSD teachers' jobs, and for the two FUHSD parcel tax measures. Council received recognition and appreciation from the FUHSD board after the strong passage of Measure B. These are the ultimate show of appreciation and support from our parents for our District! Let's continue to work and advocate on behalf of our students. Let's help our teachers and administrators to maintain or do more with less financial means. Together, we can make a difference and overcome any challenge!
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Iconic novel coming to LRU stage
"To Kill a Mockingbird."
The novel and its message of redemption are an iconic part of American history.
An area theater group is performing a stage production tonight of Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about racial inequality during a one-night presentation on Lenoir-Rhyne University's campus.
The play comes during the final days of Black History Month, and the "To Kill a Mockingbird" actors said they hope theater-goers leave the play with a better understanding of the horrors of racial inequality.
"I hope people get a fair, enlightened view of how bad segregation was," said Richard Eller, a Catawba Valley Community College professor who portrays Atticus Finch in the play.
One of Eller's classes at CVCC produced a video about racism in North Carolina prior to the Civil Rights era, and that video will show before the play.
"To Kill a Mockingbird" is performed by Action Theatrics, a new acting company in western North Carolina. The show starts Friday at 8 p.m. in the Belk Centrum Theatre at Lenoir-Rhyne University. The play is performed for one night only, and admission is $10.
Action Theatrics performed the play in Lenoir before deciding to bring the production to Catawba County. Company member Lisa Sims plays Jean Louise Finch, an adult version of tomboy Scout Finch, who narrates the play looking back on her experiences as a child.
"To be able to stand in that role and tell that story was an honor," Sims said. "I was stepping into some pretty big shoes. Although it was a challenge, it was also something I took on with quite a bit of humility, as well."
"To Kill a Mockingbird" tells the story of Scout Finch, a girl growing up in Alabama during the Great Depression. Scout's father, Atticus, agrees to defend a black man, Tom Robinson, who is charged with raping a white woman.
The southern town deals with its share of racism and prejudice, and the Finch family learns how to handle those hardships.
The play remains historically accurate in that it includes racial slurs commonly used when the story took place.
"You couldn't take that word (of the play), because historically, it is correct — no matter how painful it is," Eller said.
The cast also learned how to deal with the play's sensitive content, especially when some characters must say racially insensitive lines.
Eller said one actor told the entire cast that when he speaks his lines containing racial comments, he's speaking them as a character, not as himself.
"I thought that was a good way to handle it," Eller said.
Sims and Eller said the south has come a long way since "To Kill a Mockingbird" was published more than 50 years ago. But they also said it's important to remind people of where the country came from.
"I hope people walk out with a greater sense of knowing that, although we aren't divided by segregation the way it was during the 30s, this is still a problem in America," Sims said. "There's still racial inequality, and there's still unjust situations that take place with minorities and many other groups."


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text: Among environmental factors that may confer risk for autism, perinatal factors are prominent. Based on multiple lines of research, it has been hypothesized that activity of the hormone oxytocin – a 'social' hormone that mediates affiliative behaviors in many species including humans – may be a perinatal factor that impacts the risk of autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). An increasing number of women in the US and abroad receive Pitocin (a synthetic form of oxytocin) during childbirth to induce or augment labor. In some areas such as Israel and Europe, women may receive an oxytocin receptor inhibitor (Atosiban) to delay preterm labor. This study will take an epidemiological approach to determining the roles of Pitocin and Atosiban in ASD. Dr. Ebstein and colleagues will recruit mother and child pairs from four categories: mothers having received Atosiban during pregnancy, mothers having received Nifedipine, a drug used to prevent preterm labor that does not affect oxytocin signaling, mothers that received Pitocin during labor, and a matched control group of mothers who received no drugs and delivered at term. Children of these mothers will be screened for neurodevelopmental delays, and those testing positive will undergo further evaluations for ASD. If the use of drugs affecting oxytocin activity during the perinatal period is found to be associated with neurodevelopmental problems, it will have profound implications for a widely used obstetrical practice that may inadvertently confer additional risk for ASD and related disorders.


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By now you've surely heard the news that the Japanese GP at Motegi has been cancelled because of the volcanic ash the continues to spew out of an unpronounceable mountain in Iceland. With teams unable to fly out of Europe and into Japan, Dorna had no choice but to postpone the event until much later in the season.
Leaving MotoGP fans with nothing to do this weekend except watch the confirmed WSBK stop at Assen, some clever individuals have turned to the internet to get their GP fix. Enter TwitGP, the first virtual sporting event, that's being hosted on twitter. With a bevy of twitter-based wordplay, TwitGP has seen a number of tweeps get on-board with the concept, which hopes to bring racing action straight to 4,000 or twitter followers come Sunday.


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Aijalon is a fantasy rpg, its main points are:
Fighting chaos and withstanding Corruption, your final goal is to stop the emergence of chaos into the world.
Creating items, spells and magic artifacts.
Having your powers scale with your skill.
This is my "rough" draft for content order.
Aijalon v3.5.
Introduction. (explaining game type and why you should play it)
Overview (a quick run down on Aijalon, the emergence of chaos and its world setting)
Content page:
Chapter One: Your Character.
part one: character creation.
part two: character stats and skills (inc race, class, starsign, deity, attributes, skills, wounds etc)
part three: corruptions (how they are gained/removed and their effects)
Chapter Two: Items.
part one: durability, core materials, quality.
part two: creating items, enhancing with magic, creating magic consumables.
part three: Repairing and Improving items.
part four: Buying items, how to haggle, quality vs price, price list of items and materials.
Chapter Three. Spells.
part one: spell schools, fire/earth/stone/air/nature/death. how to learn and cast.
part two: spell creation, how to do so.
part three: sample spells for each school of magic.
Chapter Four: Damage and Healing.
part one: types of damage. physical, aggravated, magic, poison, disease.
part two: types of healing. natural, magical, prayers. healing others.
Chapter Five: Game Mechanics.
part one: game terms, rolling dice, actions.
part two: using skills and focus skills.
part three: combat, order of play, how to attack/defend.
Chapter Six: Lists and Charts.
part one: all the lists and charts eg corruptions, scars, traps, terrain diff.
part two: quick reference. condensed lists of previous entries in book, eg all racial modifiers in list form.
Chapter Seven: Aijalon.
part one: geography. maps/cities/calender/capitals/places of interest
part two: the gods. the God Wars, True gods, lesser deities.
part three: world history. The Chaos lord, the chaos crystals and armour. the coming of chaos. legends, myths, famous battles, continent history etc.
Index: to help people find info.
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Braindump: Live-Action Animation?
Wow, it's been quiet around here.
There are buy cialis 20mg some absolutely stunning realtime 3D engines available these days, primarily intended for games. A few groups also use these game engines to make short cialis lowest prices films, or machinima.
While perhaps not quite up to cinematic standards, some of the engines meet or exceed the graphical standards of what you'll see on TV animation. It's interesting that no-one seems to have attempted using machinima techniques for television shows. Admittedly, machinima relies on the game engine handle the minutiae of animation, and uses pre-written scripts for the character keyframes, so as it stands it's quite limiting from a creative point of view. But does it need to be?
Motion Capture
Motion capture can be done pretty cheaply these days with a couple of cameras and some ping pong balls; and some more advanced software might not even need the markers. Given a 3D character that has been properly rigged, it should be possible to map the motion data directly onto the model, without need for prescripted animation sequences. Most of the latest engines support facial animation as well; with a cheap knockoff of James Cameron's face capture technique from Avatar, it should also be possible to automatically reproduce an actor's expression on the model as well.
Usually the camera is controlled by another player in the game engine, but when appropriate, even this could be done via motion capture, as Steve Jackson did with Lord of the Rings. This would allow for vastly improved camera interaction with characters and scenery. Imagine "filming" a motion capture performance with an iPad, and seeing the final result right there on the screen!
Modelling and Set Building
Character and scene modelling are fairly time consuming tasks, but probably comparable to costume design & set building for traditional filming; perhaps even faster, and certainly cheaper due to the absence of material costs. The model rigging process for animation is still needed, which can be performed by a competent modeller; but for most purposes there shouldn't be a need for the more specialised animator skills, as the roles will be played out by actors directly. This would bypass another major time sink from the animation process.
Filming and Production
By working with realtime rendering, production times could be cut down considerably. There wouldn't be a wait to see if each scene had rendered correctly, with associated turnaround times if changes were needed — just reshoot the scene with the actors as you would normally. All the setup and motion data for a scene could be stored, so if the performances were good but the camerawork was not, the digitised performance could be reshot using the existing data. The camera operator could be shown a first-person realtime feed of the performance in the game engine as he "films" it again. This could allow for some innovative camerawork, too — there's no reason why you'd need to operate on the scale as the original performance. The entire scene could be scaled down relative to the camera operator; he could walk around the scene doing a sweeping overhead shot that would normally require an expensive crane (or even a helicopter), and do it all by hand.
Typically the production would be edited as normal, then rendered out as a finished video. The final rendering could run slower than realtime and add extra effects and beauty passes if necessary. However, that's not the only way this process could work…
Realtime Performance
This setup would allow for truly realtime animation, such that a show could even be broadcast live.
And it wouldn't need to be broadcast to television, either. Using the game engine's network code, the performance itself could be broadcast straight to a rendering client, and the viewer could watch a live stream in ultra-high definition with minimal network traffic. If desired for the production, this would even allow the viewer to have control over the camera themselves, and view the performance from wherever they liked in the scene.
This would allow for the first truly 3D performances; the entire scene information is available to the viewer, so given the appropriate hardware (for example, head tracking stereo glasses), they could be immersed directly in the scene itself rather than looking through a window with current 3D TV approaches.


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Sending Tidings of Good Cheer by Mail
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Making a New Year's resolution to lose weight or get back in shape is all well and good.
But what if you just can't find the time to achieve your goals?
That was the problem for one Hendersonville couple.
Branton and Jessica Burleson wanted to get back into a workout routine, but with four children — all younger than 6 — the questions were: When? and How?
"We were so busy chasing kids around," said Branton, who, when he isn't at home, works as the pastor of Christ Covenant Community Church. "We realized there were other things in our lives that we weren't getting done that we needed to get done."
When the new year rolled around, they found a solution.
Here's what they decided:
Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, around 3 p.m., Branton's mother comes over to their house to watch the children. During this time, the couple escape and head out to the gym together, where they work out different body parts each day using a combination of free weights and machines.
They started this routine in early January and have stayed consistent.
"It's good for us mentally and physically," Branton said. "We feel great, and my wife and I get to spend some quality time together as well."
There are several ways to fight the ticking clock and make time for a good workout. Not having enough time should no longer be an excuse.
The key: "Find things that you can do for yourself that fit your time frame," said Bob Brown, manager of the heart wellness program at Spartanburg (S.C.) Regional Healthcare System. "How many minutes will you commit to doing something? Once you figure out how much time you're going to have, find something you like to do. Some people like walking. Some people like getting their sweat on. Set realistic goals for yourself."
If you want to find time to go to the gym, you can do like the Burlesons and turn to others for help.
For those who might not even have time to make it to the gym regularly, fitness experts say more and more people are turning their home into a workout space.
"A lot of people are getting their own workout in at home with body-weight exercises, YouTube videos, P90X, Insanity, etc," said B.J. Little, personal trainer with the Spartanburg Athletic Club.
And many of these workouts don't require much time.
Little says body-weight exercises are growing in popularity and have become one of the biggest fitness trends for 2013.
Body-weight exercises consist of pull-ups, push-ups, power squats — "It's basically a throwback," Little said. "They require very little equipment and they are very effective. When you do a push-up, you're building your chest, your triceps, your shoulders. It's a full-body workout."
Try these functional workout routines that utilize body-weight exercises:
15 push-ups, 3 times a day
"If you do one set in the morning, you can also do it at night and that will give you a good number of push-ups to get you started. Jumping jacks would be good to add in, too. If you have a jump rope, you can use that," Little said.
10-minute workout routines
Blake Scribner, wellness director of the Middle Tyger YMCA in Spartanburg, suggests setting a timer to 10 minutes and doing sets of 5 push-ups, 10 air squats and 15 sit-ups.
Brown says not everyone can do push-ups or sit-ups; the main thing is to do what you can. "It's the little changes that make a difference," he said. "If you work downtown, walk to a restaurant. Go to the mall and walk around."
Park farther away when you go out to eat or go shopping, he added. "It doesn't hurt you to walk an extra few yards."
If you have a lot of children and just can't seem to get away, Scribner suggests walking around the neighborhood with the kids or going to the mountains for hiking trips. "You can exercise with the kids," he said. "And you will pass those healthy living principles on to your children."
Work out while you work
If you feel like all you do is work, then bring a workout to your job.
No, you don't need to haul exercise equipment up your office stairs or show up dressed in gym shorts, but there's plenty of exercises you can do at your desk or around the office that are easy and won't look ridiculous.
"If you have a desk job, for about five to seven minutes, do some exercises right at your desk," Brown said. "Even just tapping your foot while sitting is good."
If you're seated behind your desk and other employees can't see your legs, Brown and Scribner both suggest doing quad sets — extending your legs out in front, curling them in, and then stretching them back out.
Past studies have indicated sitting for long periods increases the risk of diabetes, heart disease and even death.
According to a study by Medical Billing and Coding, sitting more than six hours per day makes you 40 percent likelier to die within 15 years than someone who sits less than three hours.
"Get up and walk around the office," Brown said. "I'll never knock what someone does to be physically active. Find something you love to do, no matter how silly it is. If you're staying active, that's all that matters."
Don't think you have time to exercise? Think again
Making a New Year's resolution to lose weight or get back in shape is all well and good.


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Iowa State freshman gymnast Sara Townsend knew cracking the Cyclone lineups would be a tall task, especially considering she was one of six newcomers on an ISU team that graduated three seniors. Also, Townsend is 5-9, five inches taller than her closest teammate.
In many sports height is a perceived advantage, but in gymnastics it can create some added hurdles to overcome. Because gymnasts are often trying to turn over as fast as possible while fighting gravity, having more length can be a hindrance. Take, for example, the uneven parallel bars. All gymnasts must work tirelessly to perfect their swinging so their legs do not hit the lower bar or the mat. For a taller gymnast like Townsend, she has less space to operate within to make sure her legs to do not make contact with the ground or low bar.
"Typically, we find that a taller gymnast has to work harder to do the same thing that a shorter gymnast does," Iowa State head coach Jay Ronayne said. "It is just plain harder, if you are almost a foot taller than the average gymnast, to jump up in the air and flip twice and land back on your feet. A taller gymnast simply has to get higher to accomplish the same thing as a shorter gymnast. The equipment can be a hindrance too. Sara's feet can drag on the mats when she swings bars, and we have the high bar up very high."
Townsend has not allowed her perceived height disadvantages to hold her back in the gymnastics arena. In her first collegiate meet, the Cyclone not only made three event lineups (vault, bars and floor), she excelled. Townsend tied for event titles on both vault and floor in the Cyclones' season-opening victory. In her second meet, Townsend improved her score on both vault and bars while equaling her floor score from her collegiate debut.
Ronayne said Townsend's work ethic and love of gymnastics has helped her become an important member of the Cyclone team.
"Sara has a great attitude about what it takes to be good as a taller gymnast," Ronayne said. "I don't think that she feels she is handicapped by her height in this sport. I think she approaches it as if she is 'a gymnast' and not 'a tall gymnast'. She just wants to be a successful collegiate gymnast and will do what it takes to realize that goal."
Townsend is not alone in that she does not want to be perceived as a tall gymnast but instead a gymnast. However, Ronayne admits there can be a misperception in the gymnastics community about taller gymnasts during the recruiting process.
"It happens all the time where taller gymnasts are overlooked," Ronayne said. "Most college coaches are looking for that ideal little gymnast who is about 5-feet tall. When I was initially recruiting Sara, I kept getting surprised by the things she did even though she was easily a head taller than everyone else around her."Townsend has certainly rewarded Ronayne for not overlooking her in the recruiting process, and based on her height and gymnastics skill, it would have been hard to do that anyway.


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1. Re: DP35DP Supported processorsFlying_Kiwi Jul 14, 2011 5:17 PM (in response to toto221)1 of 1 people found this helpful
According to the compatibility tool accessible through that (discontinued) boards support site here: http://processormatch.intel.com/COMPDB/default.aspx that combination is 'not compatible'. Try for yourself and see all the processors that are compatible with that board but remember you'll have to select 'discontinued products' at the top of the page for the 3 series boards to even show up.
2. Re: DP35DP Supported processorstoto221 Jul 15, 2011 9:40 AM (in response to Flying_Kiwi)
From this:
•Compatible Chipsets
••Intel® P35 Express Chipset (Configurations: 3)
•••Intel® P35 Express Chipset with 82801IB I/O Controller Hub (ICH9)
•••Intel® P35 Express Chipset with 82801IDH I/O Controller Hub (ICH9DH)
•••Intel® P35 Express Chipset with 82801IR I/O Controller Hub (ICH9R)
And from this:
Intel® P35 Express Chipset
•Intel® 82P35 Memory Controller Hub (MCH)
•Intel® 82801IR I/O Controller Hub (ICH9R)
What is the problem? Maybe whith new BIOS version, E5700 works?
3. Re: DP35DP Supported processorsFlying_Kiwi Jul 17, 2011 9:56 AM (in response to toto221)1 of 1 people found this helpful
It looks like the board may not be physically capable of handling the FSB multiplier required for a 3 GHz CPU and only 800 MHz FSB. If you have a look at all the supported 'fast' CPUs, they all work with an FSB of at least 1066 MHz and only the slower one use 800 MHz. There may be other differences as well but suffice to say that if a newer BIOS revision did support that CPU, it should have been added to the list of compatible CPUs with a minimum BIOS revision statement alongside.
If you bought both the CPU and board together maybe the supplier will take back the unused CPU and swap it for one of the slower E5xxx series CPUs that are listed as compatible? I hope that answers your question and to pre-empt a 'can the board be modified to suit the CPU', I suspect only Intel would be capable of that and even then for a discontinued product this old, it won't happen - I imagine they'd rather you bought a shiny new motherboard to go with your recent CPU. Good luck trying to swap the CPU (or motherboard)!
4. Re: DP35DP Supported processorstoto221 Jul 17, 2011 10:56 AM (in response to Flying_Kiwi)
I have DP35DP motherboard with E6750 processor, but change this processor to DP43BF motherboard.
I try buy other accessible processor for old motherboard, but only E5400-E5500-E5700 processor are disponible.
5. Re: DP35DP Supported processorsFlying_Kiwi Jul 17, 2011 11:19 AM (in response to toto221)
toto221 wrote:
I try buy other accessible processor for old motherboard, but only E5400-E5500-E5700 processor are disponible.
What do you mean with that last word? The Intel website shows the E5400 as 'compatible' with the DP35DP (using the link I gave previously). If you've already used both CPUs then you'll need to try and sell the one you don't want 2nd hand or if they both worked before the swap, then swap them back again - that's the simplest solution! If my replies have helped then can you mark it as answered please.
6. Re: DP35DP Supported processorstoto221 Jul 18, 2011 9:36 AM (in response to Flying_Kiwi)
Sorry, E5500-E5700-E5800...
7. Re: DP35DP Supported processorsdougjp Oct 15, 2011 4:51 PM (in response to toto221)
Thanks for the info here! Because of it I could find the compatible processors to my DP35DP;
In terms of an upgrade from a Q6600, a Q9550 looks tempting, if I can find one (and I think I can, although its rare). For someone who doesn't want to reformat or change from XP, what do you think of this idea?
8. Re: DP35DP Supported processorsFlying_Kiwi Oct 16, 2011 2:00 AM (in response to dougjp)
dougjp wrote:
For someone who doesn't want to reformat or change from XP, what do you think of this idea?
Not a good idea. I think you should gather together your installation CDROMs and DVDs and research what's required to perform a fresh install on a newly formatted HDD. Although there are other things you can do software wise to speed up a sluggish PC (such as defragmenting the HDD(s)), in my experience a fresh install is usually the best way to achieve 'like new' performance again - especially if lots of software has been installed/uninstalled on the PC since the OS was installed or its been a long time since a fresh install. I think Win XP is an ideal match for such a PC so I have no problem with the OS choice at all but I really think that considering the cost of a (only slightly) faster upgrade CPU, you'd be better off saving your money and performing a fresh install to regain lost performance. Once you have enough money saved up for a complete new PC then you'll really notice the difference and you'll get more bang for your buck.
If you're not sure how to procede with backing up your data and performing a fresh install, post back any questions and I'll try to help.
9. Re: DP35DP Supported processorsdougjp Oct 16, 2011 5:52 AM (in response to Flying_Kiwi)
Thanks so much for that "dose of common sense" I have an external hard disk for data backup, so its mainly a case of the huge amount of time it seems to take to get everything organized, then the time to get programs installed and working again.
A new computer is definitely the way to go eventually, and requires only a little more work than a reformat. The money I would have spent on a processor will go towards that instead. My computer is 3 1/2 years old, which is "ancient" in terms of the improvements in speed in everything.
10. Re: DP35DP Supported processorsFlying_Kiwi Oct 16, 2011 6:03 AM (in response to dougjp)
Your 3.5 year old PC is still perfect spec for running Win XP though! I think it just needs the treatment you least want to do () to get it back in peak perfomance again. As you have an external HDD, you may wish to purchase some imaging software and once you have your PC set up again as you want it (but before installing any Antivirus or Utility software - such things are often regularly updated) consider capturing an image of the HDD. Then it's just a quick and simple matter of restoring the PC back to that image the next time you want to do this.